Member Meeting Minutes for Sept 6, 2017

Minutes by Agenda Topic

• Attendeese
  • Chad
  • Geno
  • Dave Coakley
  • James Hyde
  • Joachim
  • Adam Casto
  • Eli
  • Adam Longwill
  • Becky
  • Josh
  • Josh Smith
  • Sam Kusic
  • David

Called to Order

Called to Order At: 7:31pm

New/Potential Members

• Josh
  • General Tinkerer

Learning Tracks / Classes

• Teaching classes
  • Instructors can trade their time for:
    • Volunteer hours
    • 1 month membership
    • A class at cost
  • There is a new form and process.
  • Will be on site soon.

Potential Events/Talks/Classes

• Soldering Class
  • Non Arduino electronics kit
  • Design our own PCB eventually
  • Geno, Bob, and Cathy will work on it
  • Sometime in October

• Fidget Spinner class for kids
  • Dave Coakley and Rob Martin

• Intro to Biosignals
  • James Hyde
    • November or December

• Intro to Czech and Mandarin
  • Becky

• Learn to Tune Your Piano
  • Chad

• Intro to CPR
  • Becky and James

Shop Projects / Updates

• Autonomous Power Wheels
  • Maker Faire is Sep 23,24
  • Meeting multiple times a week
  • Making lots of progress with hardware and software

• Power Wheels
  • Taking lego car to NYC Maker Faire

• Wood Shop
  • Got large Dust collector
  • Need new 220V line

• Automatic dues payment system
  • Wild Apricot
  • Chad to have meeting with Pete from Milwaukee makerspace.
  • We're starting it up!

• Vending Machine
  • Coin and bill reader added
  • Chad and Geno working on it

• Laser Cutter
  • Currently running at 80 watts.
  • We have the $ to buy a new tube. Will buy soon.

• Safety Report
  • Need to test alarms!

New Business

• Grants
  • Becky?
    • County Grant with Dale
    • Sprout
    • Neighborhood Allies

• Security risk for allowing large groups of random strangers take classes at shop?
  • We will have a formal process for this for easy monitoring and have all contact info for every person
  • We already ask everyone who comes in here to sign a waiver
  • Cameras will help

• Outreach gets us $!
  • Remake Learning donating $300 for us to come and make pancakes.
  • School giving us $ to fix their printer.
  • Guy giving us money to make some coasters.

• SBU for tools
  • Training
  • Checklists as well... Checklists ≠ Training

• Vcarve Pro Software
  • $100/yr
  • Generates gcode from STL files
  • Makes CNC machine easy to use
  • Current HackPGH members and other makerspaces use it
  • James Hyde will teach a class on how to use it
  • Already purchased

• Cameras
  • Remove 1 month intro period when cameras are installed
  • Vote on this!
    • 7 vote in favor
    • 2 against
    • 1 abstained
      • Motion for addendum: Wait until we have insurance policy before removing 1 month period
      • Becky seconds
      • 6 in favor
      • 2 against
      • 2 abstained

• Make volunteer hour duties more defined
  • Repackage volunteer hours as a social community event
    • Bring back Finish it Friday?

• New Space
  • Move next door.
  • We are going to create a working group to help facilitate this.
  • Going to meet on Sunday
    • HackPGH Move plan
    • Business Plan
    • 3 scenarios
    • Rough costs about space Monday
    • Need to create a diverse working group (~6 members)
    • Start meeting on Sunday
    • Working group will discuss
      • Renovation plans
      • How/When we move
      • Ways to afford space
      • Present ideas to membership

• Need to put our old forums on the website
  • Adam will look into it

Project RollCall

• Dave
  • Camera mount
  • IOT microscope for Chris Quick
• Joachim
  • Converting refrigerator motor to internal combustion engine
• Geno
  • Video game with Unreal Engine
  • Telescope auto focuser with Arduino

New Member Induction

• Sam Kusic
  • Approved
• Jim Leonard
  • Approved
• Matt Kaprol
  • Approved

Move to Adjourn

• Eli motions
  • Becky seconds
    • Adjourned 8:33pm

Meeting notes by Geno